The development, validation and use of an interprofessional project management questionnaire in engineering education

Pre-Service Primary School Teachers Interdisciplinary Competence and their Interest, Self-Concept, and Sense of Belonging Regarding Natural and Social Sciences: Findings from a Longitudinal Study in Germany

“…Interdisciplinary competence is domainunspecific and defined in terms of an individual's proficiency to cope within multidisciplinary contexts (see Introduction). For this reason, within empirical research, interdisciplinary competence is typically surveyed based on self-evaluations on the part of the participants (e.g., Claus & Wiese, 2019;Engelhardt, 2019;Lattuca et al, 2013;Tormey & Laperrouza, 2023). Therefore, to survey pre-service primary school teachers' interdisciplinary competence within the present study, we used an adapted version of the selfevaluation scale developed by Engelhardt (2019).…”

“…Beyond that, thus far, the role of pre-service primary school teachers' interdisciplinary competence in teaching Sachunterricht has been addressed within educational research primarily from a theoretical perspective (e.g., Kalcsics, 2021;Künzli David et al, 2016;Wilhelm & Brühwiler, 2016). Although there is a growing body of research that empirically investigates university students' interdisciplinary competence, especially within higher education (e.g., Braßler & Dettmers, 2017;Engelhard 2019;Mansilla & Duraising, 2007) and engineering education (e.g., Richter & Paretti, 2009;Tormey & Laperrouza, 2023), to the best of our knowledge, such research has not yet been conducted with respect to the interdisciplinary competence of pre-service primary school teachers. In particular, there is a lack of empirical research, in Germany and internationally, about whether preservice primary school teachers' interdisciplinary competence changes over their university-based teacher education and to what extent interdisciplinary competence is correlated with the domain-specific orientations of pre-service primary school teachers (e.g., their interest, academic self-concept, and sense of belonging regarding natural and/or social sciences).…”